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This bill aimed to outlaw slavery in territories taken from Mexico. The bill passed in the House of Represenative but was defeated in the Senate thus causing a division in Congress. Althought, not a success it led to the formation of the Free Soil Party.
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To make the North happy California would be admitted as a free state and slave trade would be abolish in Washington D.C. To make the south happy congress would pass a stronger law to help recapture slavery.
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In 1854, law established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
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Antislavery boycotted the offical goverment and formed a goverment of their own. Settlers on both sides armed themselves. proslavery destroyed kansas office and Antislavery goverment.
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Sumnerr insults A.P. Butler. His relative Preston Brooks hit Sumner over his head with his cane.Sumner became ralling cries for Antislavery Northerners and Solgans for new Political Parties
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Dred had been a slave in Missouri. He argued that he is a free man because he lived in territories were slavery was illegal. Dred Scott V. Sandford reacted to the supreme court in 1856.
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John Brown murdered proslavery in Kansas three years ago. He had a plan that antislavery should fight for freedom,so he went to Harpers Ferry and captured wepons to protect antislavery escape
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THE UNION SECESSION SECEDE
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Lincoln won the election because there were more people in the North. South Coralina secede and was not part of the union becuase they wanted slavery.